Men's Memes: The Sandy Hook incident

Sunday, December 23, 2012

The Sandy Hook incident

These types of mass shooting incidents are obviously tragic and disturbing, however, what I also find deeply worrying and surprising is the lack of questioning about them, particularly from the media. For example, at the most basic level, there doesn't seem to be a clear explanation of the details of what happened. There were reports that there was more than one shooter involved, there were some reports that the mother of the alleged shooter was involved with the school in some way, and then later reports that she wasn't. And so on. Just read around online about it, you'll discover there are many details which don't seem to cohere into the official story.Where are the investigative journalists digging into the details and trying to work out the exact timeline of what happened? Do investigative journalists even exist anymore? (seems more journalism is just regurgitating official press releases).

However, even if you accept the official story there is still the fact that needs to be accounted for: Why are these mass shootings virtually always carried out in schools? WHY? It makes no sense. Even if these supposed loners and social outcasts (who, incidentally, always seem to be on some kind of anti-depressant drug, another fact which the journalists don't seem to be interested in), are so deranged and angry with the world that they want to shoot people, why do they always choose schools? Why don't they ever target other buildings or areas with other types of people. Its always children.

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."